The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Israel
Abramovitch, H. 2010
‘The Jerusalem funeral as a microcosm of “mismeeting” between religious and secular Israelis’, in E. Hertzog, O. Abuhav, H.E. Goldberg & E. Marx (eds) Perspectives on Israeli Anthropology, Detroit: Wayne University Press, 503-528.
Abramovitch, H. 2014
‘More dry bones. the significance of changes in mortuary ritual in contemporary Israel’ in F. Markowitz, S. Sharot & M. Shokeid (eds) Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 229-242.
Bar, D. 2023
‘Kivrei tsadikim as holy places? The tsadikification process of Jewish cemeteries in the state of Israel’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 22:4, 543-566.
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Holler, R. 2021
‘Religion and the Israeli welfare state: the case of burial services’, Politics and Religion, 14:4, 712-734.
